Beware the "Cosmoline"

[JerryEAL]

Yesterday drove down to my local Cabelas to hit the "Library" to look for any hidden gems. Spotted a 1915 Westinghouse Mosin Nagant in what looked to be decent shape for $500 CAD. The sales person and I had talked about it,he knew his stuff. It had what looked like cosmoline in the muzzle end and was plugged. I was thinking I had scored and the salesman said he also did not want to remove the cosmoline when they took it in. Got it home, cleaned it. Grease not cosmoline was found. The last 1/2 inch of the barrel was shot out. Not a counter bore. Long story short, they took the rifle back despite a "final sale policy". Hats off to my local Cabelas, we both got fooled by "the cosmoline".

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